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Bracketology: FSU Sits in Middle of Bracket

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Since our last gander at what experts had to say about Florida State’s current NCAA Tournament seeding, the Seminoles have split a pair of contests with Notre Dame and No. 11 Clemson.

According to each of the five surveyed experts, FSU either dropped or maintained its seeding from last week. Here’s a look:

Projections
ESPN: Midwest Region No. 9 vs. (8) Arizona State in Detroit (Feb. 15)
CBS Sports: Midwest Region No. 7 vs. (10) Arkansas in Wichita (Feb. 16)
SB Nation: East Region No. 8 vs. (9) Arkansas in Boston (Feb. 13); No. 8 seed, No. 29 overall (Feb. 16)
NBC Sports: South Region No. 7 vs. (10) Kansas State in Pittsburgh (Feb. 16)
USA Today: Midwest Region No. 7 vs. (10) New Mexico State in Wichita (Feb. 16)

Summary
Both CBS Sports’ Jerry Palm and SB Nation’s Chris Dobbertean pitted FSU against Arkansas. In each case, Florida State is the higher seed. Palm has FSU as a No. 7 against the 10th-seeded Razorbacks in the Midwest Region in Wichita and Dobbertean has it as a No. 8 vs. No. 9 match-up in Boston as part of the East Region.

In a piece updated on Friday, Dobbertean has FSU as the top No. 8 seed and 29th overall. His bracket was unveiled Tuesday. Palm released his on Friday. The Seminoles are 1-1 all-time against Arkansas, but the teams haven’t met since January 1991.

Like Palm, the USA Today duo of Shelby Mast and Scott Gleeson and NBC Sports’ Dave Ommen had the Seminoles as a No. 7 seed in brackets updated Friday. The USA Today duo, like Palm, has the Seminoles in the Midwest Region in Wichita, but facing 10th-seeded Providence. The Flyers beat FSU in the last meeting in Connecticut in 2014 by a brutal 80-54 score.

Ommen places FSU in South Region in Pittsburgh against 10th-seeded Kansas State. FSU is 0-2 all-time in the series with the Wildcats winning the last meeting, which came in the 1989 Great Alaska Shootout. Kansas State won, 71-70.

ESPN’s Joe Lunardi had Florida State with the lowest current seeding as a No. 9 in the Midwest Region against Arizona State. Lunardi released his bracket on Thursday and has the teams squaring off in Detroit. The Seminoles and Sun Devils have never met on the hardwood.

FSU will play just one game this week and that will come Sunday night against Pittsburgh. At 8-19 and 0-14 in ACC play, the Panthers appear in no one’s bracket.

Mike Ferguson is the editor of The Daily Nole. Follow Mike on Twitter @MikeWFerguson

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